Teradata - Steering Committee

The PARTNERS Steering Committee is the leadership team for the PARTNERS User
Group. The Steering Committee provides candid communication and feedback to NCR
and Teradata senior management on issues relating to Teradata and data warehousing.
Members communicate via monthly conference calls and attend three face-to-face
planning sessions per year. The Steering Committee is instrumental in planning,
organizing, and executing the world-class annual Teradata PARTNERS User Group
Conference and Expo.

Benefits of Participation

Advance information regarding enhancements to Teradata technology, services, and support

Networking opportunities with data warehousing professionals from companies using
Teradata

Direct communication with NCR and Teradata leadership on strategic initiatives

Opportunities to influence Teradata product direction and development

Active participation in a respected, professional organization with direct, positive impact on
Teradata users

Click here to view the Steering Committee's bylaws.

PARTNERS Steering Committee Members

Mary-Jane Jarvis-Haig President, PARTNERS Steering Committee Senior Manager, Data Warehouse Hudson's Bay Company	Patrick Bolin Co-Vice President, PARTNERS Steering Committee Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Warehousing Southwest Airlines	Fred Hintenach Co-Vice President, PARTNERS Steering Committee CS Operations Manager United States Postal Service
Tobianna Zappe Secretary, PARTNERS Steering Committee Senior Consultant, Data Warehouse Architect Nationwide Mutual Company	Deanne Larson Treasurer, PARTNERS Steering Committee Director, Data Warehouse Program Cingular Wireless	Roger Bresnahan Principal Engineer, Enterprise Data Warehousing Union Pacific Railroad
Nancy Colton Executive Director, Decision Support WellPoint, Inc.	Mark Cooper Technical Fellow FedEx Services	David Cortese Vice President and Divisional CIO Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Steve Geiger Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Transformation and Integration Carlson Companies	Russ Hendley Senior Application Architect Barclay's Bank Plc	Rudolf Holzapfel Division Manager Enterprise Delivery Center MGI Metro Group
Randall Parman Database Administrator, Data Warehouse Applebee's International	David Templeton Manager, Enterprise Data Management RBC Financial Group	Elizabeth Corley Executive Liaison to the PARTNERS Steering Committee Vice President, Marketing Communications Teradata, a division of NCR
John Dinning Vice President, Solutions Marketing and Alliances Teradata, a division of NCR	Scott Gnau Vice President, Teradata R&D Teradata, a division of NCR	Darryl McDonald Vice President, Global Consulting Services & Strategic Partnerships Teradata, a division of NCR
Karen Ritzinger PARTNERS Conference Director Teradata, a division of NCR	Rebecca Salsbury PARTNERS Conference Manager Teradata, a division of NCR

Mary-Jane Jarvis-Haig
President, PARTNERS Steering Committee
Senior Manager, Data Warehouse
Hudson's Bay Company

Mary-Jane Jarvis-Haig has been working with Information delivery systems and services for the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) for over 25 years. She is currently the Data Warehouse manager and has been supporting Teradata systems since 1999.

HBC is implementing an Enterprise Data Warehouse across its multiple divisions and retail channels. The Data Warehouse mandate includes logical and physical database design and implementation, Business Intelligence application development and rollout, and enterprise-wide Information and Reporting applications.

Patrick Bolin
Co-Vice President, PARTNERS Steering Committee
Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Warehousing
Southwest Airlines

Patrick Bolin is the Senior Manager of Enterprise Data Warehousing for Southwest Airlines. He has been with Southwest for ten years in a variety of application development leadership roles. He is also an active member of the Baylor University Information Systems Advisory Board. The Enterprise Data Warehouse is the foundation for Southwest Airlines' information delivery strategy, which provides analytics focused on maintaining its position of low-cost and high customer service leadership in the airline industry.

Fred Hintenach
Co-Vice President, PARTNERS Steering Committee
CS Operations Manager
United States Postal Service

Fred Hintenach is the Manager, Customer Service Operations for the United States Postal Service and is responsible for programs and policies that affect the day-to-day operations and performance evaluation of over 34, 000 Post Offices and Stations and the 100,000 employees who interact with customers on a daily basis. Customer Service Operations uses the U.S. Postal Service Enterprise Data Warehouse to monitor and improve overall post office and individual performance. Hintenach is a 34-year career postal employee who holds a BSBA from John Carroll University as well as a MBA in Business Management from Gannon University.

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Tobianna Zappe
Secretary, PARTNERS Steering Committee
Senior Consultant, Data Warehouse Architect
Teradata Development Division
Nationwide Mutual Company

Tobi Zappe has been working with Teradata systems since 1999. She is currently an Architect for the Nationwide Finance and Management reporting Data Warehouse. Her responsibilities include managing the database administrators and data modelers, and participating as a member of the Program Integration Team which ensures end-to-end compatibility between the various components that make up the Integrated Back Office. Prior to moving to the Finance team, Tobi was the Physical Infrastructure Architect for the Nationwide Insurance Data Warehouse.

Deanne Larson
Treasurer, PARTNERS Steering Committee
Director, Data Warehouse Program
Cingular Wireless

Deanne Larson is the Director of Program Management within the Data Warehouse Organization at AT&T Wireless Services. She has over 13 years experience in decision support development and data warehousing. Larson led the project team that launched the data warehouse at AT&T Wireless in 1998. She has been a speaker at several data warehouse conferences and her team at AT&T Wireless recently received the 2003 TDWI Best Practices Award for Data Quality. She received her BS in computer science and MBA in finance from Florida Atlantic University.

Roger Bresnahan
Principal Engineer, Enterprise Data Warehousing
Union Pacific Railroad

Roger Bresnahan has been employed at Union Pacific for 35 years, of which, 32 years have been in the IT department. Bresnahan has been working with Teradata Systems since 1993. He is one of the principal founders of Union Pacific's Enterprise Data Warehouse, which now has over 2,000 integrated tables covering over 35 different subject areas, with over 4,000 users. His duties include project scoping, modeling, system design, and sourcing new subject areas or tables into the EDW. He is also the senior consultant in the retrieval and business use of EDW information.

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Nancy Colton
Executive Director, Decision Support
WellPoint, Inc.

Nancy Colton is the Director of Decision Support Systems at WellPoint, Inc. Colton is responsible for setting the business direction for the WellPoint data warehouse. She leads a team of Business Analysts who identify business impacts to the data warehouse, and she acts as liaison between the information technology professionals and the business users. This group also services the many business users at WellPoint by providing training, help desk support, identifying system enhancements, and continuously prioritzing projects. Colton has been with WellPoint since 1988 and has held several positions related to the data warehouse.

Mark Cooper
Technical Fellow
FedEx Services

Mark Cooper has worked with the Information Superhub project—the FedEx enterprise data warehouse—since its inception in 1994. The system migrated through three different hardware and database platforms (each one successful in enabling increased business value), most recently using Teradata (since 1999). Today, he primarily handles the technical direction of the Information Superhub, including architecture, planning, design, and implementation. Cooper holds an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science (with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence) from UCLA, as well as a BS in Computer Science from Duke University.

David Cortese
Vice President and Divisional CIO
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

David Cortese currently serves as the Vice President and Divisional CIO for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, a multi-billion dollar division of the Los Angeles movie studio. In his role, Mr. Cortese oversees all aspects of information technology that support business operations, including manufacturing, distribution, customer service, finance, sales and marketing. Sony has recently made the leap into business intelligence by recently launching it's first enterprise data warehouse. Prior to Sony, Mr. Cortese spent over a decade in consulting spending seven years with consulting firm Accenture.

Steve Geiger
Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Transformation and Integration
Carlson Companies

Steve Geiger is responsible for leading the Carlson Companies enterprise-wide transformation and integration efforts. Through relationship-centric, knowledge-based, best-in-class, and strategically integrated strategies, the Carlson transformation is intended to evolve the global company into the most respected privately held company in the world. Prior to assuming his present role, Geiger was the Chief Strategy Officer for Carlson Marketing Group, responsible for leading the Peppers and Rogers Group, Measurement & Decision Science Strategy Consulting, Change Management Consulting, as well as the company's Consumer, Employee, and Channel marketing practices. He is a licensed psychologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.

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Russ Hendley
Senior Application Architect
Barclays Bank Plc

Rudolf Holzapfel
Division Manager, Enterprise Delivery Center
MGI Metro Group

Rudolf Holzapfel has more than 30 years of experience in the whole spectrum of IT. For nearly 10 years he has worked with Metro, one of the largest retailers in the world. Metro has implemented multiple Enterprise Data Warehouses across its various retail channels. He is responsible for the IT-production and Systems Administration across all platforms and Database Systems including OS administration, capacity planning, systems integration, problem management, and performance management for the Teradata DWH Systems since the first installation in 1997.

Randall Parman
Database Administrator, Data Warehouse
Applebee's International

Randall Parman has been working with Teradata systems since 1989. He is currently the Database Administrator for the Data Warehouse at Applebee's International. At Applebee's, he is involved with building an enterprise data warehouse. His responsibilities include modeling the enterprise, system administration, and planning for future growth and expansion. Prior to moving to Applebee's International, Parman was the System Administrator/Technical Lead for the NCR/Teradata systems at Union Pacific. At Union Pacific, he helped direct the expansion of the Teradata systems from a 40 GB NCR3600 with 20 users, to a 3.2TB NCR5200 with over 4,000 users. His responsibilities included capacity planning, performance monitoring, and system integration of the NCR/Teradata systems with other technologies at Union Pacific. He has presented at PARTNERS conferences and participated in forums at the Global Support Center in Rancho Bernardo, California. Parman has also been a member of the Product Advisory Council, serving as chairman from July 1995 through October 1999.

David Templeton
Manager, Enterprise Data Management
RBC Financial Group

David Templeton is the manager responsible for Enterprise Data Management at RBC Financial Group. This mandate includes development of standards and delivery of data management services including data modeling, database administration and metadata services for all of RBC's operational applications and the Enterprise Data Warehouse Environment. David has worked in IT for 18 years in positions ranging from software programming and database administration to project management. David has worked with Teradata for 4 years and led the implementation of RBC's data warehouse consolidation strategy and several initiatives to operationalize the Data Warehouse Environment as it evolves to an active state.

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Elizabeth Corley
Executive Liaison to the PARTNERS Steering Committee
Vice President, Marketing Communications
Teradata, a division of NCR

Elizabeth Corley is responsible for NCR's external, customer-directed communications for Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, including direct marketing, collateral and success stories, and events and seminars. Corley is one of NCR's strongest supporters of PARTNERS, and she brings her experience in sales and marketing of leading-edge business solutions and technologies to help promote and grow the Conference. She directs the team that manages the day-to-day operations of planning and running the Conference.